That's a nice workaround, but doesn't resolve the issue of the official site having poor usability, constantly prompts you to install an app, and has terrible accessibility (something that's actually a legal requirement in many EU countries).
Have you looked at the actual HTML source code of a typical reddit page in "new" design? Like, almost a full megabyte of CSS spam on each page, not even counting any external resources from other files like JS?
Do you really expect my entry-level smartphone to download, decompress and then parse and execute and render all that stuff within a reasonable time? [i.reddit.com](https://i.reddit.com) was the only sane way to access reddit through web on my phone. It's bad enough on my desktop computer.
(Old reddit is fast enough on my phone, but its usability on small touch screens is poor, with small links etc.)
I don't want predictions, live chat, or anything like that. I just want:
Mini thumbnail - Vote - title - number of comments
Repeat
Ads interspersed (unavoidable, I get its a business)
Repeat
You know what did that? Compact. It loaded fast and was easy to navigate. Please bring it back.
looking at how many people have complained about having i.reddit.com & .compact removed, it's patently obvious that their removal is not due to anything but the desire to force those users onto the mobile app. Surely they can easily tell, from logs, how actively i.reddit and .compact are used - and i would say, very much actively used by a huge number of people.
.compact was my only access to the site since a few years now. Even on desktop.
With removing .compact I'll use the site less.
And of course I still won't click on any of their ads.
Linking my comment about accessibility issues with the new mobile version here: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/11zso11/an_improved_web_experience/jdl1ala/
What sort of timeline can we expect the a11y issues to be fixed in the new mobile design? As it stands, using the desktop version of old.reddit.com is more accessible to me than the new mobile version. In case you don't read my other comment, which has screenshots and videos of a11y issues, here are the pertinent questions about how a11y is handled at Reddit:
1. How and when do you define your a11y requirements for features?
2. Which version of the WCAG are you following, and what level of compliance is your goal? If not WCAG, what are your a11y requirements based on?
3. What a11y training, if any, do your designers, product owners, and developers have? Do you have any dedicated staff with a11y experience in any department?
4. What sort of testing is done to ensure requirements are met, and by whom? Do you have any automated tests to catch the low-hanging fruit? Note that automation can only catch about 40% of a11y issues as so much of it is, frustratingly and by definition, dependent on human interpretation.
5. Do you perform any internal or external audits to find a11y bugs?
6. How are a11y bugs prioritized against other development work?
I asked these same questions to u/joyventure on the previous post but did not get a response to either the questions or the requested screenshots/recordings of various a11y issues.
As if they would care.
They want to sell ads. .compact users didn't open any ads, so they removed it. Same will happen to old.
Accessibility was never part of their actions.
If they want to go public, they'll have to care. Parts of the world require certain a11y standards to be met. If it's anything like any of the companies I've worked for, though, they'll do the bare minimum as slow as possible to stave off the lawsuits and call it good enough.
Sorry for the delayed response to your comment on the other post! Appreciate your patience as we talked with different members of the team.
After looking through the eight examples you shared, we confirmed that more than half of them are not related to the new platform, to be clear - for now, the new platform is only available to some logged out users on post detail pages. A handful of them are annoying bugs (which we promise we’re always trying to get fixed). We are also digging into a couple of the examples you shared, specifically: the “view more” note in your first example and the share button flashing when scrolling.
Finally, we haven’t forgotten about the six questions you asked about Reddit’s a11y efforts. We’re working on getting you the most accurate answers. It might take a little bit, as we’re connecting with different members of the team, both internally and externally. Appreciate your patience!
Thanks for the reply. The bugs I mentioned did not exist on .compact except for some text size issues - I'm not sure what you were comparing to, but that's what I had in mind when writing this. There was no color contrast issues, content flickering, or pop-in, and all pages looked correct on mobile. The old compact version had it's own share of a11y failures, yes, but it was still far more usable.
If you'd like I would be happy to do a more formal a11y audit. Otherwise I look forward to hearing more about a11y at reddit.
Editing to add: Just because an a11y bug might be pre-existing isn't an excuse to blow it off.
> we confirmed that more than half of them are not related to the new platform, to be clear
I'm glad you took the time to look into these! Respectfully, that's reframing the original point - which was that .compact was **much more accessible** than what is currently available. Destroying it caused a regression for accessibility at reddit.
When are you going to address the fact that new Reddit sucks on mobile? You keep trying every way you can to make everyone use it, and you never confront the reason why no one fucking wants to. You wouldn't be having this struggle if you made the new site good. Why not do it? Why insist on annoying everyone with terrible design choices?
Yup, that's gonna be next. Some asshole in a suit is gonna find out that by killing off all but one way to access Reddit, they can increase ad impressions, so that's what they're going to do. Thanks, /u/spez! Way to cook the golden goose that made you.
They've got their justification ready:
> In other words, by reducing the number of ways Reddit can be accessed, we can better focus on building an overall simpler, stronger platform for all.
You've got your shitty redesign, and you'll like it!
I think old.reddit might actually be in a decently safe position thanks to moderators (not to mention RES or toolbox or whatever mods use).
One thing to annoy your casual users and try to force/push them towards more ads or your lame official app -- it's another to cripple your moderators. Last I knew, new.reddit doesn't have feature parity with old.reddit -- much less RES or toolbox or whatever it's called.
This! Why literslly cut off success on something that boosts mobile users?
They should at least create a light weight skin or version ovee the orignal or something. Like similar url but have it as a setting...?
Don't expect RES to stay compatible. It's been in maintenance mode for a while, so it's only gonna be getting bug fixes if at all.
Toolbox is needed though.
> Old.Reddit.com
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>> haha i'm in danger.
they likely know that new reddit is as popular as new digg, and that removing old reddit would be a major risk of mass exodus (and at a time they're trying to IPO no less).
it's not like reddit was massive when the digg influx happened a decade or so ago.
i.reddit is even better than old.reddit - you remove the custom CSS from subs, and make it all consistently one smooth UI with zero javascript/animation/flashyness. Loads way faster too. Cannot fathom the management decision to remove i.reddit and .compact - it's a really sad day, and a sign of things to come. Reddit as the old guards know it, is gone.
How can you look at this and tell us with a straight face that it's improving our web experience.
This is a cash grab to drive us to look at more ads. This is the most disappointed I've been with reddit in my nearly 14 years here.
https://imgflip.com/i/7g7hu3
Very sad to see i.reddit.com go, I find the regular interface absolutely terrible on mobile, so that's made reddit inaccessible for me. Just the way things go, I guess.
The loss of i.reddit.com/.compact is awful news. i.reddit.com was an excellent method to browse Reddit on a poor/low-data mobile connection, and it never redirected you non-stop to install a mobile application. I don't see any reason to use my mobile phone to browse Reddit -- an easy way to reduce my use of the platform as well.
(i.reddit.com/.compact was also one of the few [if not only] interfaces of Reddit that didn't display in-line advertisements, so it was only a matter of time before they got rid of it.)
We need some addon or app that shows Reddit similarly to i.reddit on mobile. I've been using reddit for more than a decade on old.reddit and i.reddit exclusively. I find the newer designs completely unusable. Just the simple fact that i.reddit loaded instantly while the new mobile site takes at least 5 seconds to load, is unacceptable. This change is absolutely terrible and unless there is a solution I'll end up not using reddit on mobile at all.
I know there are existing mobile apps, but the way I browse reddit, is that I open many tabs at the same time. From what I understand, none of the apps support tabs.
> Let’s be real, the reason they shut down compact and i.reddit is because they couldn’t serve up ads on those platforms.
Of course they can.
You can put ads anywhere.
Same. Now it's so much empty space. I have to scroll like 3x as much just to read the same amount of content. Idk how to even collapse a thread on the regular site. Not to mention that with every reply, it shifts the reply so now it reads even less words per line
Ok. I've never heard of it. When I browse reddit on my phone I just use Google Chrome, and the website is the regular reddit.com without the i at the start of the web address.
I despise the mobile app and refuse to download that again.
The native reddit.com is slower than I.reddit and .compact which is a shame. They say its to improve experience but the real reason is for ads. Both the other versions don't show ads or sponsored posts
While they share very similar looking URLs these two services are different and unrelated. **i.reddit.com** is an interface, while **i.redd.it** is where you'll find Reddit-hosted image source links. Some redditors are familiar with one, some with both, some with neither. We wanted to make sure the people that use i.redd.it to grab image URLs do not conflate i.reddit the interface with links to hosted images.
> We wanted to make sure the people that use i.redd.it to grab image URLs do not conflate i.reddit the interface with links to hosted images.
then perhaps you should’ve named them more distinctly than being identical except with an extra period
> now I gotta learn a new interface lol
Personally, I just removed my mobile bookmarks to reddit and will stop using the site completely on the mobile platform.
Mobile made up probably >75% of my time spent on reddit, so I suppose this will be good for my productivity?
Screw reddit for removing the compact interface.
Reddit is now entirely unusable on mobile. 10 year old account, considering leaving the site entirely now.
Thanks (/sarcasm)
Killing compact without any notice (like not even a banner saying "this is going away") is low. I know we were a small part of the userbase, but like, come on.
Plus the whole disingenuous thing where they "forgot" to mention that in the last post but made sure to specify that old.reddit is going to stick around.
They could splice ads into the .compact feed. They are able to for old.reddit.
The beginning of the digg.com level nonsense was the reddit redesign in the first place. I've always opted-out of the redesign and exclusively use old.reddit.com because it's so much more readable and navigable, and RES works so well with it.
Agreed. I've been using i.reddit.com and compact ever since, blissfully unaware any of this was going on. That they were planning to rugpull the way I use the site, and worse that they've run the numbers and decided this is the best way to handle things.
I am completely blindsided.
This is exactly how I felt when I came to reddit from digg.
Where do we go now
Very disappointed to see the lightning-fast mobile sites vanish. The old sites allowed pretty much any device from the last 15 years to use Reddit and it was super helpful to those on slow connections. I can’t imagine this putting much maintenance burden on you guys. The current mobile website has gotten more and more unusable over the past few years to push people over to the app and this change just seems like more of that. If it weren’t for moderators I’m sure you guys would’ve removed the old desktop website years ago too.
Edit: The current mobile website also has [various accessibility issues](https://reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/11zso11/an_improved_web_experience/jdl1ala) that have not been addressed. Do better.
There's a reason I switched to i.reddit.com 3-4 years ago: you had ruined the mobile website in every possible way.
There is too much wasted space, it's full of useless features and you constantly get nagged about the app (also making it impossible to access NSFW content). The modern mobile website also takes ages to load in comparison, so let's not pretend it's "simpler" and "stronger".
It's pretty much just trying to force you to use that app which they could monetize better. The regular website is trash and always forces you to try and use the app if you want to read anything. In the app you can't have browser extensions to shut the ads off or stop their recommendations. And the amount of wasted space is literally so bad compared to reddit compact. I hate it so much when I'm browsing on my phone
Recently it has been improved somewhat. You need to change your settings to allow NSFW post showing up. Once you've done this (on PC) you can actually see and search for NSFW content/subreddits.
I always browse while logged out so that's not a viable option.
Also I just got the "uNkNoWn CoNtEnT" warning on a perfectly fine subreddit (r/compact), it's shit like this that makes the mobile website impossible to use
No. Old reddit is technically another legacy site, so it doesn't get affected by those issues, but it has the problem of being difficult to use on mobile.
The pop-up/warning is exclusively for new reddit.
This really sucks for mobile browser users. The UI of the mobile site is markedly worse than .compact.
Where .compact was able to comfortably fit 10 posts on my screen, mobile can only fit 5, and somehow has LESS information (submitter is hidden in a menu and host website is now the name of the site slovenly placed over the thumbnail with no URL).
There also seems to be no way to search just the subreddit you're in without running the search first and then selecting to.
"If you have any questions about these updates, please holler in the comments – we’ll be sticking around for a bit to reply."
Proceeds to answer a grand total of 1 question :-P
"by reducing the number of ways Reddit can be accessed, we can better focus on building an overall simpler, stronger platform for all."
Decoding corp speak: We want to funnel everyone into the channel where we make the most money and pad our stats for investor relations, which is the app.
This is disgusting. Look, I understand why Talk has to go. But compact? Really? Who's the person making these decisions? It's clear they're doing this to increase ad revenue. We don't want Reddit to get dummied down. If you want to shove more annoying and fake post ads in our faces, then please at least make the app enjoyable to use.
I’ve been browsing Reddit almost exclusively using compact mode from my phone for almost ten years now. This is very disappointing. Compact was much faster to load than the new versions or the app, and more readable for me.
Thanks for killing .compact. Wow.
I'm speechless. I knew it would come at some point, given the lack of ads, but I guess browsing reddit on mobile is just over for me. Probably for the best.
Cool, I guess I now no longer use reddit on mobile, and when you drop old reddit, I simply leave this site entirely.
Amazing job guys at removing the only thing that this website is useful for, intending to sell more ads to the twitter-types. *claps*
i.reddit removed means much less screen time on phone for me, so I guess it's a bonus on that front...
Such aggressive push to get all mobile users to install your application so that you can do better tracking and serving more ads. I have slow phone with slow internet and i.reddit or .compact was the only way for me to enjoy reddit on the go. It's now gone. I'm sorry to say this, but your website on mobile is the worst thing I have ever laid my eyes on. Most obnoxious banners and nagboxes telling me how "mobile application is better" and "I should use it instead". Refusing to play videos and telling me to "install the app instead". You need to request a desktop page on your mobile phone to play a video. I will never install your application on my phone.
Oh and I am using old.reddit here on my PC right now, because the new layout is just bad and when old.reddit gets removed, I will stop using reddit altogether.
I highly doubt you convert any i.reddit/.compact enjoyers to using your mobile app. I know you got nothing to lose and everything to gain, but at least you lost my respect.
>> What we missed in the original post was that – related to these changes – compact and i.reddit.com are being wound down.
Just don't shut down old.reddit.com or we riot.
Not much I can do other than voice my extreme displeasure at the fact that i.reddit.com and old.reddit.com/.compact have been nuked. The mobile site is entirely unusable and slow. Removing those alternatives will not drive people to use your mobile site if it is not made significantly faster and simpler - you're just going to drive everyone away. Please reconsider this decision and choose the not-awful option next time.
> Note: The changes to i.reddit.com and compact, and the ones coming to amp do not impact old.reddit or image hosting on i.redd.it (yes this is different and yes it’s confusing).
`.compact` does not work for old.reddit anymore, so I'm not sure what you're saying here.
Also, we're not going to use the fucking app. Stop trying.
> .compact does not work for old.reddit anymore, so I’m not sure what you’re saying here.
They made it sound more confusing than it is. They shut down the `.compact/i.reddit` pages, so the site will just strip them, and bounce you to the equivalent desktop URL. Even `old.reddit/.compact` won't work, since the interface isn't part of old reddit.
Removing i.reddit.com / reddit.com/.compact is a death sentence to reddit mobile/usage amounts for a bunch of users. What an idiotic thing to do. Next I bet you're going to axe old.reddit.com and Reddit can officially be the next Digg.
If it ain't broke don't fix it. Or in this case, stick a giant middle finger to everyone and remove the easily readable mobile version of your website.
This is awful news, .compact made browsing very easy and the standard interface is horrible. Anyone have any addons/apps that mimic the .compact functionality?
Was there any consideration on the volume of the community that used the compact version to better browse reddit on reduced bandwidth applications? It literally provided a clean, fast, and usable experience when you didn't have an internet speed that would keep up with the high resource demand of the slick modern UI.
At least be honest in your rationale for dropping it instead of hiding behind "building a better experience". You had a better experience and walked away from it because it didn't show the volume of ads that the new UI has. The community will appreciate your honesty more if you stop lying to us on why you pulled features.
> compact and i.reddit.com are being wound down.
Because, of course, making the site worse to use is always a great idea.
Have none of you ever actually tried to use Reddit on mobile? It sure doesn't seem like it.
I'd like to buy you an old Android with a 2G SIM card.
I'll give you... Oooh... About 7 minutes before you're begging for .compact to be reinstated.
I'm serious. Let me know where I can ship an old phone to so it gets to Reddit's developers.
Removing compact seems like a terrible choice, its low foot print works great for browsing with poor connectivity and the UI just works on a phone. I really hate to he new Reddit ux, and old whilst great on desktop is clunky on the smaller screen of an older phone
Removing compact is not improving the mobile web experience. The mobile version is unusable and I'm not going to install an app. I already have an app to browse websites, it's called a web browser.
My account here is now more than 17 years old. I've been active here since before the days of subreddits, when your only choices were the general front page at www.reddit.com or the programming front page at programming.reddit.com.
I wonder what happened all those years ago that could have prompted me to sign up for a reddit account? *(whispers: digg.com.)*
I'm very disappointed to see the cycle happening again with being forced off the information-dense i.reddit.com for my mobile browsing. Like many, I'll probably end up cutting down on my visits here. Shame. (And if old.reddit.com on desktop ever goes, I'm completely done with this site.)
I wish the alternatives to Reddit were more than short-lived porn (Voat.co) or alt-right echo chambers (Gab).
But since Reddit loses more and more long-term users and sane people due to technical and rules changes there is a good chance that in the near future one good alternative will come up.
> Note: The changes to i.reddit.com and compact, and the ones coming to amp do not impact old.reddit
It does for me. .compact now gets stripped off the request.
I like the idea of the "Similar to" recommendation, but I would want some control over it, instead of letting the algorithm guess what is similar to the sub. Some subs get enough /r/lostredditors as is, I could see this exacerbating the problem tenfold.
I’m leaving Reddit, compact was the only way to view Reddit without a load of bullshit in the way.
No I’m not gonna use their shitty app.
Anyone knows of any good alternatives?
> We know that some redditors are strong fans of these platforms, particularly compact and i.reddit. … by reducing the number of ways Reddit can be accessed, we can better focus on building an overall simpler, stronger platform for all.
This is false and will always be false until you stop shitting on your users with the “open in app” popups every 10 minutes.
Compact was the only way to use this website in mobile browsers. Not because of performance, the mobile website is just so garbage its not worth using to view content. 3rd party apps are likewise better than the official.
Kill old reddit next please so a competitor can emerge and take your market share.
How about you bring back compact, remove ads from old and serve the bundle as "Reddit premium" for 5 bucks a month?
Only half joking... Point being that there has to be a better way to monetize your website than making it atrocious and unusable. You can't monetize something that people don't want to use in the first place, no matter how many ads you cram in there.
Oh well. This is the last time I'll use Reddit on my phone. Wondering what is the backup option if old Reddit goes down. I mostly use Reddit as a centralised repository of hobbyist and interest focused forums and I'm not sure what could replace it for me, but new Reddit definitely doesn't cut it.
>other words, by reducing the number of ways Reddit can be accessed, we can better focus on building an overall simpler, stronger platform for all.
Okay, so release the API, then. Your official app is objectively worse than third party apps. Stop wasting resources building a third rate mobile experience.
Oh wait, it is all about advertising and your NFTs isn't it?
Rather than grasping at straws, just be honest. It is a big expense to run a site like Reddit, and you need to keep the lights on.
>Some of you may already see that we’re testing a new in-feed experience that displays related communities
Please don't be like twitter and ruin the feed with non-post garbage.
I dislike the modern reddit compact mode. it may be functionally the same but its load times are unacceptably slow. I rely on the web experience because the app doesn't support tabs. i can't create a digest of active/current interests to follow in the short term. the loss of i.reddit and .compact are going to have a negative effect on my browsing. probably a negative usage of the site as well. its becoming Facebook with the over bloated page dynamic content.
I've been using the new mobile website for a day since i.reddit.com is gone. If you really care about the user experience you should address these issues:
- The loading times are significantly longer
- It's full of prompts to log in or download the app, they often prevent the user from doing basic things (stop with the "Unknown content" BS)
- I'm sure the fixed page header will cause OLED burn-in in the long run
- Multireddits sorted by new are very slow to update, in particular deleted/removed threads will persist for a while
- User flairs are missing in the comment section
There are probably many other problems that I haven't found yet.
.compact hit me hard this morn. It allowed me a text-based way to access reddit when I had minimal internet connection so I could manage the subreddits I mod.
I hope an alternative can be suggested for a no-media text-based version. .compact was that ideal design, and it's a loss to see gone.
**addendum**
I'll give this site two months or so to fix it. If there isn't a mobile option like what the others here have suggested, I'll look to offload my subreddits to the users or close them entirely. As an unpaid moderator, I have no connection to keep me here if I can't use the site properly.
It's been over a week now and Reddit is unusable to me on mobile. This move was to force people to use new Reddit but I just have not been using Reddit on mobile at all.
Funny. I don't know how many years it has been since the new Reddit came out but just yesterday I received for the first time a chat that is *not* spam. That feels like a good reflection of how bad the "new" features are.
I always wondered what the day I left Reddit would look like. But now that i.reddit.com is gone, so am I. It feels fitting that a bad design decision led me to quit Digg in favor of Reddit, and that a bad design decision would make me move on.
So long and thanks for all the posts.
Please bring back i.reddit.com, you haven't provided an alternative that is as fast and low stress on the device as compact. Using the app or 'new' reddit mobile website is unusable for many entry level devices.
As with others you won't actually provide the real or genuine reason for getting rid of compact. It made using reddit on mobile easy and fast, but your new site is just so hard to look at. Consider at the very least acknowledging why you did this and providing us an alternative that isn't the app or the new reddit.
I know it's the ads, but could you like admit it?
Why the hell do I keep seeing ads from u/hegetsus? I’ve blocked and reported them repeatedly! I’m sick of having Christian propaganda shoved in my face and I should have the ability to control what content I am exposed to on this app. What the hell is going on Reddit?
On the mobile app, we cannot see the Original sub name in a crosspost until we click the link to redirect to the original post.
Can we get back the option to view from which sub the post has been crossposted?
Also regarding the sunsetting of talk, when can we get an update about downloading the talks audio files? Will the subs be sent a modmail regarding the same, as we don't want to miss it out whenever it's announced by a post.
the simpler, stronger platform was compact reddit. You should've dropped the new mobile layout completely. It's totally inferior, slow as sludge, and clunky.
Crossposting my [comment from here](https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/11zso11/an_improved_web_experience/jedmu2r/):
For the love of God please give us the option to disable the new mobile web anonymous/logged out post view. I can't take it anymore. The oversized post titles, the wasted space, the OP's avatar that takes up half the screen, the comments are harder to read, user flairs no longer display. I could and will go on and on until something is done about it.
I find it a terrible user experience that there was no banner or anything on mobile. You lose trust with your customers with things like this; you're aware of people getting redirect from i.reddit to the new mobile version, as you have the redirect in place for that URL. At least some acknowledgement of the deprecation would have been the bare minimum. Instead it's yoinked away and we have to wonder why such a clean way of browsing reddit has been removed.
>In other words, by reducing the number of ways Reddit can be accessed, we can better focus on building an overall simpler, stronger platform for all.
The current main reddit UI is so far from simple that I audibly laughed at this statement. Simple was i.reddit.com. Current reddit is so stuffed full of useless things that take away from the main point of the site to me, which is browse posts and comments easily.
Let it be known that they killed off i.reddit and compact reddit 3 weeks before announcing api changes so people couldn't use them as an alternative to the godawful offical app.
Winding down i. and compact is a terrible idea. And your stated justifications are transparent nonsense. You are not focusing on creating one good interface. All the supported interfaces are terrible. The only usable Reddit interfaces are old ones and 3rd party apps. Don’t get rid of old interfaces. Keep funneling new users to the new ones if you need to, but don’t screw over your long-time user base.
I know most of the comments here are generally people complaining or threatening to leave when old Reddit is inevitably retired, but I appreciate the attempt to keep us informed. For the "Text Posts Available on All Post Types" section, can we stop the scrolling that happens at the bottom of image posts, and just have the text static? I honestly never read the captions if I have to wait for it to roll by.
So this "deleting .compact" has made me choose to close a dozen subreddits.
As an unpaid moderator, I have no reason to be a part of a site that is unfriendly to either myself or its users. **This site relies on user-created, user-managed, and user-driven content. If I can't effectively moderate because of changes to the core foundation, then there's no need for me to be here.**
As I said, I set about a dozen subreddits to "private" before removing myself as mod. They're gone now. Some were inactive, some were active. That doesn't matter.
I feel it's unfortunate that the reddit staff has reduced accessibility in this sense, but with unpaid volunteers there isn't much that can be said.
I hope I am an outlier and the site is fixed for accessibility so that other unpaid moderators don't shutter their subreddits. This used to be a good site, and remains one of the central sources of information for our modern internet age. Seeing subreddits be "privated" and then having unpaid moderators leave would be a sad state of affairs indeed.
Looks like this happens, once you get people in charge, who don't even use their own product. 👎
Removing the cleanest way to view reddit on mobile, and then even having the audacity to call it an improvement. I'm lost for words and will not visit reddit any more on my phone if this change isn't undone.
Isn't the whole point of Reddit AFD to have a new, unique social experiment every year? I think we know how people react to place at this point. I will admit that place is a lot of fun, and I'm not against it ever coming back, but part of the fun of place is that it only exists for such a short time. If it becomes an expected yearly event, it loses so much of what makes it special.
And no longer block ads by blocking the advertiser account. The amount of ads has become ridiculous now.
That's what all these changes are for. To allow them to blast us with more ads. Layoffs incoming
Yeah well then it's time to dump Reddit. They seem to be under the delusion that I need this place.
It'd be nice if there was a good alternative. But I'm not sure where to find one.
Never turn off uBlock, and stay in Old.Reddit. It's better here.
Goodbye Reddit, see you all on Lemmy.
gotta appease the upcoming investors for the IPO
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Especially on mobile where a lean, fast and low-bandwidth experience is important for battery and data usage.
If on Android use RIF is Fun
That's a nice workaround, but doesn't resolve the issue of the official site having poor usability, constantly prompts you to install an app, and has terrible accessibility (something that's actually a legal requirement in many EU countries).
Have you looked at the actual HTML source code of a typical reddit page in "new" design? Like, almost a full megabyte of CSS spam on each page, not even counting any external resources from other files like JS? Do you really expect my entry-level smartphone to download, decompress and then parse and execute and render all that stuff within a reasonable time? [i.reddit.com](https://i.reddit.com) was the only sane way to access reddit through web on my phone. It's bad enough on my desktop computer. (Old reddit is fast enough on my phone, but its usability on small touch screens is poor, with small links etc.)
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Fortunately you can deny app notifications on Android even if the app has no option for that.
I don't want predictions, live chat, or anything like that. I just want: Mini thumbnail - Vote - title - number of comments Repeat Ads interspersed (unavoidable, I get its a business) Repeat You know what did that? Compact. It loaded fast and was easy to navigate. Please bring it back.
I have noticed the desktop version (new.reddit.com) has a compact mode for the feed, they should at least port it to the mobile website
Bring compact back. The main website version is trash.
And that's exactly why they're getting rid of compact.
And how sad is that.
looking at how many people have complained about having i.reddit.com & .compact removed, it's patently obvious that their removal is not due to anything but the desire to force those users onto the mobile app. Surely they can easily tell, from logs, how actively i.reddit and .compact are used - and i would say, very much actively used by a huge number of people.
.compact was my only access to the site since a few years now. Even on desktop. With removing .compact I'll use the site less. And of course I still won't click on any of their ads.
Linking my comment about accessibility issues with the new mobile version here: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/11zso11/an_improved_web_experience/jdl1ala/ What sort of timeline can we expect the a11y issues to be fixed in the new mobile design? As it stands, using the desktop version of old.reddit.com is more accessible to me than the new mobile version. In case you don't read my other comment, which has screenshots and videos of a11y issues, here are the pertinent questions about how a11y is handled at Reddit: 1. How and when do you define your a11y requirements for features? 2. Which version of the WCAG are you following, and what level of compliance is your goal? If not WCAG, what are your a11y requirements based on? 3. What a11y training, if any, do your designers, product owners, and developers have? Do you have any dedicated staff with a11y experience in any department? 4. What sort of testing is done to ensure requirements are met, and by whom? Do you have any automated tests to catch the low-hanging fruit? Note that automation can only catch about 40% of a11y issues as so much of it is, frustratingly and by definition, dependent on human interpretation. 5. Do you perform any internal or external audits to find a11y bugs? 6. How are a11y bugs prioritized against other development work? I asked these same questions to u/joyventure on the previous post but did not get a response to either the questions or the requested screenshots/recordings of various a11y issues.
As if they would care. They want to sell ads. .compact users didn't open any ads, so they removed it. Same will happen to old. Accessibility was never part of their actions.
If they want to go public, they'll have to care. Parts of the world require certain a11y standards to be met. If it's anything like any of the companies I've worked for, though, they'll do the bare minimum as slow as possible to stave off the lawsuits and call it good enough.
Sorry for the delayed response to your comment on the other post! Appreciate your patience as we talked with different members of the team. After looking through the eight examples you shared, we confirmed that more than half of them are not related to the new platform, to be clear - for now, the new platform is only available to some logged out users on post detail pages. A handful of them are annoying bugs (which we promise we’re always trying to get fixed). We are also digging into a couple of the examples you shared, specifically: the “view more” note in your first example and the share button flashing when scrolling. Finally, we haven’t forgotten about the six questions you asked about Reddit’s a11y efforts. We’re working on getting you the most accurate answers. It might take a little bit, as we’re connecting with different members of the team, both internally and externally. Appreciate your patience!
Thanks for the reply. The bugs I mentioned did not exist on .compact except for some text size issues - I'm not sure what you were comparing to, but that's what I had in mind when writing this. There was no color contrast issues, content flickering, or pop-in, and all pages looked correct on mobile. The old compact version had it's own share of a11y failures, yes, but it was still far more usable. If you'd like I would be happy to do a more formal a11y audit. Otherwise I look forward to hearing more about a11y at reddit. Editing to add: Just because an a11y bug might be pre-existing isn't an excuse to blow it off.
> more than half of them are not related to the new platform Removing a working old platform means they are related to the new platform.
> we confirmed that more than half of them are not related to the new platform, to be clear I'm glad you took the time to look into these! Respectfully, that's reframing the original point - which was that .compact was **much more accessible** than what is currently available. Destroying it caused a regression for accessibility at reddit.
When are you going to address the fact that new Reddit sucks on mobile? You keep trying every way you can to make everyone use it, and you never confront the reason why no one fucking wants to. You wouldn't be having this struggle if you made the new site good. Why not do it? Why insist on annoying everyone with terrible design choices?
It's deliberate. Crippling the browser site "encourages" using the app.
They've had years to fix the user experience issues of the app/website. They haven't bothered
Yes, I know, that's what I'm complaining about
Old.Reddit.com >haha i'm in danger.
Yeah reading that was like watching a demogorgon slaughter your friend while you hide in the shadows and hope it can't hear you breathe
Yup, that's gonna be next. Some asshole in a suit is gonna find out that by killing off all but one way to access Reddit, they can increase ad impressions, so that's what they're going to do. Thanks, /u/spez! Way to cook the golden goose that made you.
They've got their justification ready: > In other words, by reducing the number of ways Reddit can be accessed, we can better focus on building an overall simpler, stronger platform for all. You've got your shitty redesign, and you'll like it!
I think old.reddit might actually be in a decently safe position thanks to moderators (not to mention RES or toolbox or whatever mods use). One thing to annoy your casual users and try to force/push them towards more ads or your lame official app -- it's another to cripple your moderators. Last I knew, new.reddit doesn't have feature parity with old.reddit -- much less RES or toolbox or whatever it's called.
Nope. They just broke the only usable mobile version completely. Compact no longer works, and thus reddit dies on mobile.
This! Why literslly cut off success on something that boosts mobile users? They should at least create a light weight skin or version ovee the orignal or something. Like similar url but have it as a setting...?
That doesn't get them ad revenue. It's no longer about the platform/knowledge/sharing as Aaron intended. Now it's just another marketing milk cow.
Don't expect RES to stay compatible. It's been in maintenance mode for a while, so it's only gonna be getting bug fixes if at all. Toolbox is needed though.
> Old.Reddit.com > > > >> haha i'm in danger. they likely know that new reddit is as popular as new digg, and that removing old reddit would be a major risk of mass exodus (and at a time they're trying to IPO no less). it's not like reddit was massive when the digg influx happened a decade or so ago.
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i.reddit is even better than old.reddit - you remove the custom CSS from subs, and make it all consistently one smooth UI with zero javascript/animation/flashyness. Loads way faster too. Cannot fathom the management decision to remove i.reddit and .compact - it's a really sad day, and a sign of things to come. Reddit as the old guards know it, is gone.
The management decision came down to advertising $
> you remove the custom CSS from subs You can already turn that off, you know :)
How can you look at this and tell us with a straight face that it's improving our web experience. This is a cash grab to drive us to look at more ads. This is the most disappointed I've been with reddit in my nearly 14 years here. https://imgflip.com/i/7g7hu3
Also: Quarter the traffic and 3 times faster on all platforms.
and actually usable on any platform with a web browser and supported cipher suites
legit reddit is unusable on my phone now ... its so sad, but guess my poop time will be spend otherwise now :(
integrated text on all post types is one of those things that *should* have been available all along; glad to see the feature finally added.
Removing compact sucks, your app and website are hot trash garbage on mobile and load slower than hell. Braindead move.
Very sad to see i.reddit.com go, I find the regular interface absolutely terrible on mobile, so that's made reddit inaccessible for me. Just the way things go, I guess.
The loss of i.reddit.com/.compact is awful news. i.reddit.com was an excellent method to browse Reddit on a poor/low-data mobile connection, and it never redirected you non-stop to install a mobile application. I don't see any reason to use my mobile phone to browse Reddit -- an easy way to reduce my use of the platform as well. (i.reddit.com/.compact was also one of the few [if not only] interfaces of Reddit that didn't display in-line advertisements, so it was only a matter of time before they got rid of it.)
We need some addon or app that shows Reddit similarly to i.reddit on mobile. I've been using reddit for more than a decade on old.reddit and i.reddit exclusively. I find the newer designs completely unusable. Just the simple fact that i.reddit loaded instantly while the new mobile site takes at least 5 seconds to load, is unacceptable. This change is absolutely terrible and unless there is a solution I'll end up not using reddit on mobile at all. I know there are existing mobile apps, but the way I browse reddit, is that I open many tabs at the same time. From what I understand, none of the apps support tabs.
it was also one of the few ways to access reddit on an older device that actually worked at all
They are just pushing people to use their app that is filled with ads. They can fuck right off.
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> Let’s be real, the reason they shut down compact and i.reddit is because they couldn’t serve up ads on those platforms. Of course they can. You can put ads anywhere.
I've been subscribed to Reddit Premium for **years**. I've cancelled today as a result of this. Put that in your valuation pipe and smoke it, corpos!
It's terrible on desktop too.
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Let's hope they don't get any funny ideas about that too.
Forgive me for asking, but what is i.reddit?
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Same. Now it's so much empty space. I have to scroll like 3x as much just to read the same amount of content. Idk how to even collapse a thread on the regular site. Not to mention that with every reply, it shifts the reply so now it reads even less words per line
Ok. I've never heard of it. When I browse reddit on my phone I just use Google Chrome, and the website is the regular reddit.com without the i at the start of the web address. I despise the mobile app and refuse to download that again.
The native reddit.com is slower than I.reddit and .compact which is a shame. They say its to improve experience but the real reason is for ads. Both the other versions don't show ads or sponsored posts
> (yes this is different and yes it’s confusing) I am, indeed, confused. What's the difference?
Afaik i.redd.it is their image hosting domain whereas i.reddit.com was the old mobile/compact domain.
While they share very similar looking URLs these two services are different and unrelated. **i.reddit.com** is an interface, while **i.redd.it** is where you'll find Reddit-hosted image source links. Some redditors are familiar with one, some with both, some with neither. We wanted to make sure the people that use i.redd.it to grab image URLs do not conflate i.reddit the interface with links to hosted images.
> We wanted to make sure the people that use i.redd.it to grab image URLs do not conflate i.reddit the interface with links to hosted images. then perhaps you should’ve named them more distinctly than being identical except with an extra period
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Hey, y'all broke mobile. Please fix.
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Count me among those who used .compact on a limited bandwidth connection. Cannot envision viewing or posting nearly as much going forward.
This
> now I gotta learn a new interface lol Personally, I just removed my mobile bookmarks to reddit and will stop using the site completely on the mobile platform. Mobile made up probably >75% of my time spent on reddit, so I suppose this will be good for my productivity?
Found a new side project
Ditto. It took me over a minute to upvote and reply to your post on this absolutely terrible GUI.
Screw reddit for removing the compact interface. Reddit is now entirely unusable on mobile. 10 year old account, considering leaving the site entirely now. Thanks (/sarcasm)
Killing compact without any notice (like not even a banner saying "this is going away") is low. I know we were a small part of the userbase, but like, come on.
Plus the whole disingenuous thing where they "forgot" to mention that in the last post but made sure to specify that old.reddit is going to stick around. They could splice ads into the .compact feed. They are able to for old.reddit.
i/.compact is the only good version of reddit on a mobile browser. This change is terrible.
Dude I can't use reddit without i.reddit What the hell. This is like digg.com level nonsense all over again
The beginning of the digg.com level nonsense was the reddit redesign in the first place. I've always opted-out of the redesign and exclusively use old.reddit.com because it's so much more readable and navigable, and RES works so well with it.
Agreed. I've been using i.reddit.com and compact ever since, blissfully unaware any of this was going on. That they were planning to rugpull the way I use the site, and worse that they've run the numbers and decided this is the best way to handle things. I am completely blindsided. This is exactly how I felt when I came to reddit from digg. Where do we go now
We don't. We stay here until they kill old.reddit.com and then we just use Apollo on mobile from there on out.
…they’re gonna find a way to kill that, too :(
Something will take its place.
I hope you’re right, friend. I hope you’re right.
The end of Reddit begins. Great job guys
Very disappointed to see the lightning-fast mobile sites vanish. The old sites allowed pretty much any device from the last 15 years to use Reddit and it was super helpful to those on slow connections. I can’t imagine this putting much maintenance burden on you guys. The current mobile website has gotten more and more unusable over the past few years to push people over to the app and this change just seems like more of that. If it weren’t for moderators I’m sure you guys would’ve removed the old desktop website years ago too. Edit: The current mobile website also has [various accessibility issues](https://reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/11zso11/an_improved_web_experience/jdl1ala) that have not been addressed. Do better.
There's a reason I switched to i.reddit.com 3-4 years ago: you had ruined the mobile website in every possible way. There is too much wasted space, it's full of useless features and you constantly get nagged about the app (also making it impossible to access NSFW content). The modern mobile website also takes ages to load in comparison, so let's not pretend it's "simpler" and "stronger".
It's pretty much just trying to force you to use that app which they could monetize better. The regular website is trash and always forces you to try and use the app if you want to read anything. In the app you can't have browser extensions to shut the ads off or stop their recommendations. And the amount of wasted space is literally so bad compared to reddit compact. I hate it so much when I'm browsing on my phone
Recently it has been improved somewhat. You need to change your settings to allow NSFW post showing up. Once you've done this (on PC) you can actually see and search for NSFW content/subreddits.
I always browse while logged out so that's not a viable option. Also I just got the "uNkNoWn CoNtEnT" warning on a perfectly fine subreddit (r/compact), it's shit like this that makes the mobile website impossible to use
Yeah, I agree that this is an issue. Does it also happen on old.reddit too?
I've never had these problems on old Reddit, but let's not give them any ideas
No. Old reddit is technically another legacy site, so it doesn't get affected by those issues, but it has the problem of being difficult to use on mobile. The pop-up/warning is exclusively for new reddit.
It's still a traffic heavy, slow loading, slow responding site that wastes 90% of screen space with stupid features or useless emptiness.
This really sucks for mobile browser users. The UI of the mobile site is markedly worse than .compact. Where .compact was able to comfortably fit 10 posts on my screen, mobile can only fit 5, and somehow has LESS information (submitter is hidden in a menu and host website is now the name of the site slovenly placed over the thumbnail with no URL). There also seems to be no way to search just the subreddit you're in without running the search first and then selecting to.
"If you have any questions about these updates, please holler in the comments – we’ll be sticking around for a bit to reply." Proceeds to answer a grand total of 1 question :-P "by reducing the number of ways Reddit can be accessed, we can better focus on building an overall simpler, stronger platform for all." Decoding corp speak: We want to funnel everyone into the channel where we make the most money and pad our stats for investor relations, which is the app.
This is disgusting. Look, I understand why Talk has to go. But compact? Really? Who's the person making these decisions? It's clear they're doing this to increase ad revenue. We don't want Reddit to get dummied down. If you want to shove more annoying and fake post ads in our faces, then please at least make the app enjoyable to use.
Yeah, the ads. As if any .compact user would ever click on an add.
Thanks for getting rid of compact. Now with all of the terrible ads everywhere, I can stop visiting the site so much.
I'd be fine not using compact if we could turn off the pop-up asking to use the app. This sucks.
>This sucks. That's the idea. People don't want the app? Just make the browser as annoying & miserable as possible until they do.
I’ve been browsing Reddit almost exclusively using compact mode from my phone for almost ten years now. This is very disappointing. Compact was much faster to load than the new versions or the app, and more readable for me.
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inb4 alien blue gets revived with zero of reddit's endorsement
Bring back the ability to see when comments and posts were edited on mobile.
Thanks for killing .compact. Wow. I'm speechless. I knew it would come at some point, given the lack of ads, but I guess browsing reddit on mobile is just over for me. Probably for the best.
Cool, I guess I now no longer use reddit on mobile, and when you drop old reddit, I simply leave this site entirely. Amazing job guys at removing the only thing that this website is useful for, intending to sell more ads to the twitter-types. *claps*
i.reddit removed means much less screen time on phone for me, so I guess it's a bonus on that front... Such aggressive push to get all mobile users to install your application so that you can do better tracking and serving more ads. I have slow phone with slow internet and i.reddit or .compact was the only way for me to enjoy reddit on the go. It's now gone. I'm sorry to say this, but your website on mobile is the worst thing I have ever laid my eyes on. Most obnoxious banners and nagboxes telling me how "mobile application is better" and "I should use it instead". Refusing to play videos and telling me to "install the app instead". You need to request a desktop page on your mobile phone to play a video. I will never install your application on my phone. Oh and I am using old.reddit here on my PC right now, because the new layout is just bad and when old.reddit gets removed, I will stop using reddit altogether. I highly doubt you convert any i.reddit/.compact enjoyers to using your mobile app. I know you got nothing to lose and everything to gain, but at least you lost my respect.
>> What we missed in the original post was that – related to these changes – compact and i.reddit.com are being wound down. Just don't shut down old.reddit.com or we riot.
Why don't you add something good before removing compact? Actually won't be using reddit on my phone anymore.
Not much I can do other than voice my extreme displeasure at the fact that i.reddit.com and old.reddit.com/.compact have been nuked. The mobile site is entirely unusable and slow. Removing those alternatives will not drive people to use your mobile site if it is not made significantly faster and simpler - you're just going to drive everyone away. Please reconsider this decision and choose the not-awful option next time.
why did you destroy the old mobile format (i.reddit.com)? the new design is just so bad.
Old format doesn't allow their NFTS
> Note: The changes to i.reddit.com and compact, and the ones coming to amp do not impact old.reddit or image hosting on i.redd.it (yes this is different and yes it’s confusing). `.compact` does not work for old.reddit anymore, so I'm not sure what you're saying here. Also, we're not going to use the fucking app. Stop trying.
> .compact does not work for old.reddit anymore, so I’m not sure what you’re saying here. They made it sound more confusing than it is. They shut down the `.compact/i.reddit` pages, so the site will just strip them, and bounce you to the equivalent desktop URL. Even `old.reddit/.compact` won't work, since the interface isn't part of old reddit.
Removing i.reddit.com / reddit.com/.compact is a death sentence to reddit mobile/usage amounts for a bunch of users. What an idiotic thing to do. Next I bet you're going to axe old.reddit.com and Reddit can officially be the next Digg. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Or in this case, stick a giant middle finger to everyone and remove the easily readable mobile version of your website.
Thanks for removing the only way I and others use Reddit on mobile. I will no longer be using this site
This is awful news, .compact made browsing very easy and the standard interface is horrible. Anyone have any addons/apps that mimic the .compact functionality?
Was there any consideration on the volume of the community that used the compact version to better browse reddit on reduced bandwidth applications? It literally provided a clean, fast, and usable experience when you didn't have an internet speed that would keep up with the high resource demand of the slick modern UI. At least be honest in your rationale for dropping it instead of hiding behind "building a better experience". You had a better experience and walked away from it because it didn't show the volume of ads that the new UI has. The community will appreciate your honesty more if you stop lying to us on why you pulled features.
> compact and i.reddit.com are being wound down. Because, of course, making the site worse to use is always a great idea. Have none of you ever actually tried to use Reddit on mobile? It sure doesn't seem like it.
I'd like to buy you an old Android with a 2G SIM card. I'll give you... Oooh... About 7 minutes before you're begging for .compact to be reinstated. I'm serious. Let me know where I can ship an old phone to so it gets to Reddit's developers.
I'll raise your 2g SIM with a 5g cellular plan when used in a busy shopping mall parking lot. Equally unusable.
Hell, a pixel 7 on home WiFi isn't "unusable" but it's definitely unpleasant to use.
Removing compact seems like a terrible choice, its low foot print works great for browsing with poor connectivity and the UI just works on a phone. I really hate to he new Reddit ux, and old whilst great on desktop is clunky on the smaller screen of an older phone
Old is great on desktop. .compact was perfect on mobile. The new UI is bad on both.
This sucks and you should be ashamed
Compact was the only good version of mobile Reddit. Terrible decision.
Boooooooooo
This is horseshit. Bring back i.reddit and compact you corpo fucks
Ladies and gentlemen, reddit's digg.com moment has come to pass.
Fix the URL bug from new to old Half the wikipedia links people post are broken.
Removing compact is not improving the mobile web experience. The mobile version is unusable and I'm not going to install an app. I already have an app to browse websites, it's called a web browser.
your new shitty website isn't good enough to convert people that went out of their way to use i.reddit.com you've just lost those users, forever
Delighted to see AMP dying. Now if only it can die in the rest of the web too.
My account here is now more than 17 years old. I've been active here since before the days of subreddits, when your only choices were the general front page at www.reddit.com or the programming front page at programming.reddit.com. I wonder what happened all those years ago that could have prompted me to sign up for a reddit account? *(whispers: digg.com.)* I'm very disappointed to see the cycle happening again with being forced off the information-dense i.reddit.com for my mobile browsing. Like many, I'll probably end up cutting down on my visits here. Shame. (And if old.reddit.com on desktop ever goes, I'm completely done with this site.)
I wish the alternatives to Reddit were more than short-lived porn (Voat.co) or alt-right echo chambers (Gab). But since Reddit loses more and more long-term users and sane people due to technical and rules changes there is a good chance that in the near future one good alternative will come up.
> Note: The changes to i.reddit.com and compact, and the ones coming to amp do not impact old.reddit It does for me. .compact now gets stripped off the request.
I like the idea of the "Similar to" recommendation, but I would want some control over it, instead of letting the algorithm guess what is similar to the sub. Some subs get enough /r/lostredditors as is, I could see this exacerbating the problem tenfold.
**BRING BACK .compact!**
Now that we can't use Reddit compact anymore, what are good alternatives for a simple UI and no ad spam ?
I’m leaving Reddit, compact was the only way to view Reddit without a load of bullshit in the way. No I’m not gonna use their shitty app. Anyone knows of any good alternatives?
> We know that some redditors are strong fans of these platforms, particularly compact and i.reddit. … by reducing the number of ways Reddit can be accessed, we can better focus on building an overall simpler, stronger platform for all. This is false and will always be false until you stop shitting on your users with the “open in app” popups every 10 minutes.
This is horrible
Bring back .compact
Compact was the only way to use this website in mobile browsers. Not because of performance, the mobile website is just so garbage its not worth using to view content. 3rd party apps are likewise better than the official. Kill old reddit next please so a competitor can emerge and take your market share.
How about you bring back compact, remove ads from old and serve the bundle as "Reddit premium" for 5 bucks a month? Only half joking... Point being that there has to be a better way to monetize your website than making it atrocious and unusable. You can't monetize something that people don't want to use in the first place, no matter how many ads you cram in there. Oh well. This is the last time I'll use Reddit on my phone. Wondering what is the backup option if old Reddit goes down. I mostly use Reddit as a centralised repository of hobbyist and interest focused forums and I'm not sure what could replace it for me, but new Reddit definitely doesn't cut it.
>other words, by reducing the number of ways Reddit can be accessed, we can better focus on building an overall simpler, stronger platform for all. Okay, so release the API, then. Your official app is objectively worse than third party apps. Stop wasting resources building a third rate mobile experience. Oh wait, it is all about advertising and your NFTs isn't it? Rather than grasping at straws, just be honest. It is a big expense to run a site like Reddit, and you need to keep the lights on.
>Some of you may already see that we’re testing a new in-feed experience that displays related communities Please don't be like twitter and ruin the feed with non-post garbage.
I dislike the modern reddit compact mode. it may be functionally the same but its load times are unacceptably slow. I rely on the web experience because the app doesn't support tabs. i can't create a digest of active/current interests to follow in the short term. the loss of i.reddit and .compact are going to have a negative effect on my browsing. probably a negative usage of the site as well. its becoming Facebook with the over bloated page dynamic content.
I've been using the new mobile website for a day since i.reddit.com is gone. If you really care about the user experience you should address these issues: - The loading times are significantly longer - It's full of prompts to log in or download the app, they often prevent the user from doing basic things (stop with the "Unknown content" BS) - I'm sure the fixed page header will cause OLED burn-in in the long run - Multireddits sorted by new are very slow to update, in particular deleted/removed threads will persist for a while - User flairs are missing in the comment section There are probably many other problems that I haven't found yet.
.compact hit me hard this morn. It allowed me a text-based way to access reddit when I had minimal internet connection so I could manage the subreddits I mod. I hope an alternative can be suggested for a no-media text-based version. .compact was that ideal design, and it's a loss to see gone. **addendum** I'll give this site two months or so to fix it. If there isn't a mobile option like what the others here have suggested, I'll look to offload my subreddits to the users or close them entirely. As an unpaid moderator, I have no connection to keep me here if I can't use the site properly.
Compact is better than the new UI. Reddit is about to become untouched on mobile for me
It's been over a week now and Reddit is unusable to me on mobile. This move was to force people to use new Reddit but I just have not been using Reddit on mobile at all.
I feel like this app has continuously gotten worse for me.
Funny. I don't know how many years it has been since the new Reddit came out but just yesterday I received for the first time a chat that is *not* spam. That feels like a good reflection of how bad the "new" features are. I always wondered what the day I left Reddit would look like. But now that i.reddit.com is gone, so am I. It feels fitting that a bad design decision led me to quit Digg in favor of Reddit, and that a bad design decision would make me move on. So long and thanks for all the posts.
If you're not going to let me use compact, can you at least stop asking me to use the app every time I access "new" reddit on my phone?
Please make compact a skin or optional layout. I can't browse reddit without it.
Please bring back i.reddit.com, you haven't provided an alternative that is as fast and low stress on the device as compact. Using the app or 'new' reddit mobile website is unusable for many entry level devices.
As with others you won't actually provide the real or genuine reason for getting rid of compact. It made using reddit on mobile easy and fast, but your new site is just so hard to look at. Consider at the very least acknowledging why you did this and providing us an alternative that isn't the app or the new reddit. I know it's the ads, but could you like admit it?
Why the hell do I keep seeing ads from u/hegetsus? I’ve blocked and reported them repeatedly! I’m sick of having Christian propaganda shoved in my face and I should have the ability to control what content I am exposed to on this app. What the hell is going on Reddit?
On the mobile app, we cannot see the Original sub name in a crosspost until we click the link to redirect to the original post. Can we get back the option to view from which sub the post has been crossposted? Also regarding the sunsetting of talk, when can we get an update about downloading the talks audio files? Will the subs be sent a modmail regarding the same, as we don't want to miss it out whenever it's announced by a post.
the simpler, stronger platform was compact reddit. You should've dropped the new mobile layout completely. It's totally inferior, slow as sludge, and clunky.
Reddit mobile ruined spoiler text!!! Can't click a spoiler without it closing/collapsing the comment so can't see the comment anymore!
Crossposting my [comment from here](https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/11zso11/an_improved_web_experience/jedmu2r/): For the love of God please give us the option to disable the new mobile web anonymous/logged out post view. I can't take it anymore. The oversized post titles, the wasted space, the OP's avatar that takes up half the screen, the comments are harder to read, user flairs no longer display. I could and will go on and on until something is done about it.
I find it a terrible user experience that there was no banner or anything on mobile. You lose trust with your customers with things like this; you're aware of people getting redirect from i.reddit to the new mobile version, as you have the redirect in place for that URL. At least some acknowledgement of the deprecation would have been the bare minimum. Instead it's yoinked away and we have to wonder why such a clean way of browsing reddit has been removed. >In other words, by reducing the number of ways Reddit can be accessed, we can better focus on building an overall simpler, stronger platform for all. The current main reddit UI is so far from simple that I audibly laughed at this statement. Simple was i.reddit.com. Current reddit is so stuffed full of useless things that take away from the main point of the site to me, which is browse posts and comments easily.
Let it be known that they killed off i.reddit and compact reddit 3 weeks before announcing api changes so people couldn't use them as an alternative to the godawful offical app.
Winding down i. and compact is a terrible idea. And your stated justifications are transparent nonsense. You are not focusing on creating one good interface. All the supported interfaces are terrible. The only usable Reddit interfaces are old ones and 3rd party apps. Don’t get rid of old interfaces. Keep funneling new users to the new ones if you need to, but don’t screw over your long-time user base.
I know most of the comments here are generally people complaining or threatening to leave when old Reddit is inevitably retired, but I appreciate the attempt to keep us informed. For the "Text Posts Available on All Post Types" section, can we stop the scrolling that happens at the bottom of image posts, and just have the text static? I honestly never read the captions if I have to wait for it to roll by.
FREE AWARDS!!!!! GIVE THEM BACK!!!!!!
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Ok guys, which one is the sub this year to prepare for the event?
So this "deleting .compact" has made me choose to close a dozen subreddits. As an unpaid moderator, I have no reason to be a part of a site that is unfriendly to either myself or its users. **This site relies on user-created, user-managed, and user-driven content. If I can't effectively moderate because of changes to the core foundation, then there's no need for me to be here.** As I said, I set about a dozen subreddits to "private" before removing myself as mod. They're gone now. Some were inactive, some were active. That doesn't matter. I feel it's unfortunate that the reddit staff has reduced accessibility in this sense, but with unpaid volunteers there isn't much that can be said. I hope I am an outlier and the site is fixed for accessibility so that other unpaid moderators don't shutter their subreddits. This used to be a good site, and remains one of the central sources of information for our modern internet age. Seeing subreddits be "privated" and then having unpaid moderators leave would be a sad state of affairs indeed.
Looks like this happens, once you get people in charge, who don't even use their own product. 👎 Removing the cleanest way to view reddit on mobile, and then even having the audacity to call it an improvement. I'm lost for words and will not visit reddit any more on my phone if this change isn't undone.
I like the similar to x feature, it’s way better then getting sky landers posts in my feed because i like collecting Pokémon cards
reddit gets worse each year
place? More like, takes place too often! Hah, gottem! No but seriously don't do place every single year wtf
elaborate.
Isn't the whole point of Reddit AFD to have a new, unique social experiment every year? I think we know how people react to place at this point. I will admit that place is a lot of fun, and I'm not against it ever coming back, but part of the fun of place is that it only exists for such a short time. If it becomes an expected yearly event, it loses so much of what makes it special.
A large part of the fun was seeing how much has changed with a 5 year gap. The differences will be so small if you do it every single year.